And above all it has already been proven

It was the end of the summer. An insidious wind blew on the site of Nano Innov, the future temple of nanotechnology which is meet next year a thousand researchers come from all walks of life on the Saclay plateau. Although surprised by the freshness and the humidity, the President of the Republic garda well shorten the presentation of Pierre Veltz, and did seek his coat. In a few specific sentences, one who would be appointed one month later President and CEO of the public establishment Paris-Saclay is able to give life to the plans securely stowed trestle weighted bags of Earth. A symbol for this son of Alsatian teachers of modest origin born in Phalsbourg in 1945. Because the project that must implement the new public institution, the Board of Directors met for the first time today, defies history and passions exacerbated by local policy. This vast area, extending to the South-West of Paris in Massy in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, bear the imprint of the major national projects - the Palace of Versailles to nuclear research-, shelter as polytechnic schools and centres of research such as Thales, he has not yet borne fruit. It is Pierre Veltz it is to cultivate them, with the new public establishment, for laying the foundations of a Silicon Valley in France, one of the Grand Paris Nicolas Sarkozy's flagship projects. This X-bridge Dr. in sociology is no shortage of arguments to convince those skeptics that the scale of the project. And above all, it has already been proven.

By "ties railways".

After an early career which familiarizes with urban planning, it is moving towards a mixed route researcher and teacher. Fascinated by the industrial world, he worked for Danone, Renault and Usinor, including on the transformations of work and enterprise, without release the land-use planning and the world of the communities. In the 1980s, he founded and directs the Department of research of the school of bridges and contributes to the creation of a dozen laboratories before lead, from 1991 to 1998, laboratory Techniques, territories and societies (LATTS), associated with the CNRS and the school of bridges and the universities of Paris-XII and Marne-la - Vallée. Called in 1999 as a branch of the school of bridges, it develops further its ability to borrow what he calls "crossed paths" by also taking the Presidency of ParisTech, grouping of ten large engineering schools. Activist of the approximation universities-schools, he took the direction of the Institute of high studies for the development and management of the territories in Europe (Ihedate) in 2005.

Attentive to his family, the father of three children, married to a magistrate in likes not less read, "isolate themselves to write". He thus published a dozen books, as "Companies and territories network" or "Must save schools", which some will feed the work of member Christian white. Appointed Secretary of State responsible for the development of the capital region, the latter calls it in 2008 at the head of mission capital region that he will leave in 2009 to be named Delegate Minister for the implementation of the "cluster" of Paris-Saclay, préfigurateur of the public establishment last summer. Two years already passed to "put oil in the ins and outs" of the Saclay machine.